Your Invisible Bodies

The Star Inside An Apple

August 15, 2011 at 9:43 Leave a comment

Since my book is being prepared for another print run, I have the opportunity to update it.  Lisa Arsenault, my current graphic designer, has located a great photograph of an apple with the cut showing the star-shaped core.  She suggested I add text to the page.  After <30 hours of reflection, here is the new text.

The first time I saw the star inside an apple, I was surprised.  I was an adult and had always sliced an apple from the stem down.  I had no idea that if you cut an apple across the middle, you would see the core in the shape of a star. 

This showed me that when I do the same action over and over again, without thinking of other possibilities, I don’t learn anything new.  To cut the apple crossways is to think differently.  Testing a different possibility always brings new learning. 

Besides, the beauty of an apple is not its outer appearance.  You have to bite into it and eat it  to receive its goodness.  What is inside a living thing matters more than its outside.  It is the whole apple that feeds us.  The next time you eat an apple, pay attention to it and be grateful. 

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